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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Huntington Beach or Puerto Princesa?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Huntington Beach for

  • day trips
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Huntington Beach’s own page.

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Huntington Beach 70, Puerto Princesa 58: Huntington Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Puerto Princesa 38: Huntington Beach leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Puerto Princesa 22: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Puerto Princesa 26: Huntington Beach leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Puerto Princesa 12: Huntington Beach leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Puerto Princesa 45: Huntington Beach leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Puerto Princesa 30: Puerto Princesa leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Puerto Princesa 20: Huntington Beach leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Puerto Princesa 10: Huntington Beach leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Puerto Princesa 40: Puerto Princesa leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Huntington Beach
Best match
44match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Huntington BeachPuerto Princesa

Where the figures come from

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachPuerto Princesa
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m98 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachPuerto Princesa
City population198,711316,384
People per km²2,406133
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.